virt-resize: Document guest boot stops at "GRUB" (RHBZ#640961).

[libguestfs.git] / TODO

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@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Haskell bindings
 
 Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
 
 
 Complete the Haskell bindings (see discussion on haskell-cafe).
 

+PHP bindings
+------------
+
+Add bindtests to PHP bindings.
+

 Complete bind tests
 -------------------
 
 Complete bind tests
 -------------------
 


@@ -85,11 +90,6 @@ This is mainly useful from live CDs, ie. virt-p2v.
 Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd
 code directly into libguestfs?
 
 Should we bother having the daemon at all and just link the guestfsd
 code directly into libguestfs?
 

-Supermin appliance to febootstrap
----------------------------------
-
-Supermin appliance functionality should be moved into febootstrap.
-

 Ideas for extra commands
 ------------------------
 
 Ideas for extra commands
 ------------------------
 


@@ -279,8 +279,7 @@ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/
 -N option should be generated
 -----------------------------
 
 -N option should be generated
 -----------------------------
 

-'-N' option should be generated code, and should generate
-documentation in guestfish(1) manpage.
+'-N' option should generate documentation in guestfish(1) manpage.

 
 Fix 'file'
 ----------
 
 Fix 'file'
 ----------


@@ -295,6 +294,9 @@ Occasionally we break virt-inspector through some change.  We should
 add a regression test for it.  However this is hard because we'd need
 to avoid having to carry huge images.
 
 add a regression test for it.  However this is hard because we'd need
 to avoid having to carry huge images.
 

+Update: I managed to fit a real-but-minimal Fedora 13 image into 6.2 MB.
+See: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/tip-pack-files-into-a-new-disk-image/#content
+

 Freeze/thaw filesystems
 -----------------------
 
 Freeze/thaw filesystems
 -----------------------
 


@@ -345,20 +347,7 @@ Common problems
 
 How can we solve these common user problems?
 
 
 How can we solve these common user problems?
 

-- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/374931.html
-  In guestfish, specified -m non-existent filesystem.  We could suggest
-  a list of filesystems, or suggest they run the virt-list-filesystems
-  command.
-
-Progress of long-running operations
------------------------------------
-
-For example, copying in virt-resize.  How can we display the progress
-of these operations?  This is a basic usability requirement, and
-frequently requested.
-
-See: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-July/msg00003.html
-and follow-ups.
+[space for common problems here]

 
 Better support for encrypted devices
 ------------------------------------
 
 Better support for encrypted devices
 ------------------------------------


@@ -371,22 +360,48 @@ We would like to add:
   - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains
     anything apart from VGs).
 
   - Direct access to the /dev/mapper device (eg. if it contains
     anything apart from VGs).
 

-Recursive upload / download of multiple files
----------------------------------------------
+Display image as PS
+-------------------
+
+Display the structure of an image file as a PS.

 
 

-virt-tar is really clumsy to use, and upload/download in guestfish can
-only do single files.  tar-in in guestfish can upload multiple files,
-but only if you have prepared a tarball in advance.
+Greater use of blkid / libblkid
+-------------------------------
+
+guestfs_zero should use wipefs.  See wipefs(8).
+
+There are various useful functions in libblkid for listing partitions,
+devices etc which we are essentially duplicating in the daemon.  It
+would make more sense to just use libblkid for this.
+
+There are some places where we call out to the 'blkid' program.  This
+might be replaced by direct use of the library (if this is easier).
+
+Remove repo from appliance name
+-------------------------------

 
 

-What we really need is a method which is as easy to use as 'scp' and
-'scp -r'.
+There's no need to have the appliance name contain the repository name
+(ie initramfs.x86_64.img instead of initramfs.fedora-13.x86_64.img).

 
 

-Can we add this as a command in guestfish?  This will be more useful
-since users will already need to be in guestfish in order to create
-target directories, review what they've done etc.  It could be a meta-
-command such as:
+Visualization
+-------------
+
+Eric Sandeen pointed out the blktrace tool which is a better way of
+capturing traces than using patched qemu (see
+contrib/visualize-alignment).  We would still use the same
+visualization tools in conjunction with blktrace traces.
+
+Virt-df UUID
+------------
+
+Virt-df and any other tools with --csv output should be able to print
+UUID of domain.  This allows you to track the real domain across
+renames etc.
+
+Add-domain command
+------------------

 
 

-  copy-in-recursive localdir remotedir
-  copy-out-recursive remotedir localdir
+guestfs_add_domain (g, "libvirt-dom");

 
 

-which would hide use of tgz-in etc.
+However this would need to not depend on libvirt, eg. loading it
+on demand.